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THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER.
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OFFICIAL ORGAN FOR
City of Americus.
Sumter County.
Railroad Commission of Georgia For Third Congressional
District
U. S. Court. Southern District of Georgia.
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SUMTER THE ROAD KING-PIN
And now the news comes from Atlanta that Sum
ter county, instead of getting $200,000 of federal aid
money today to match her first batch of county bonds
to begin the construction of permanent roads in the ru
ral districts, will be lucky to get an apportionment of
$50,000.
It sounds a bit like tough luck at first, but it is
really the best news for Sumter and Georgia that could
possibly come, for this reason: It means that Sumter
county is a part of a state that is coming to the front :
faster than any other state in the union—is doing ’
something that will attract the most favorable atten
tion from substantial people and interests from one
end of the nation to the other—and will reap benefits i
of which we now have but the faintest dreams.
It means that, instead of only Sumter and two ©r :
three other counties in Georgia being progressive ;
enough and foresighted enough to build permanent i
roads, the whole state is doing that very th ng, adding i
untold benefits to the local program whicti we had
mapped out here.
It means multiplying by as many counties in Geor
gia as have permanent highway projects under way vhe
value of the projects in Sumter county.
GEORGIA LED ALL THE STATES IN PERM A- }
NEXT ROAD PROJECTS PRESENTED TO THE GOV
ERNMENT FOR APPROVAL UP TO APRIL. AND IS
TIED ONLY BY OHIO SINCE THEN! ~■*
Many of us didn’t know it, but it is ail unpleasant
fact, nevertheless, that the name of (horgu has been
the signal for a snicker or lrt ot her part - of the
country for many ut hereafter the simile will bo
of a diff< , . . ,
_ . - ..-reß* kind, and GeoCg.a can smile proudly
’al&fif with the other iP'.lOw.
If Suihtef county can get but $50,00d for start
ing het road program now, she’ll take it and use it. If it
is only SIO,OOO— if that is our just share when the
available funds haze been apportioned -we ll take that
and use it up. For there is more coming. The government
has found the good roads movement sweeping the enun
try, and the appropriations already made more than
exhausted in many states. That means there will be
more federal aid, and Sumter county will get what
in the lead now. Don’t forget that, you to whom the
we’re going to stay in the lead.
This scramble for federal aid moAfey is one of the
best signs ever exhibited by Georgia. It means some
thing definite, something real; a determination to do
something worth while, to get somewhere. And we re
in the lead now. Do’nt forget that, you to whom the
name of Georgia has been a source of merriment. And
we’re koing to stay in the lead.
There is one more consideration that is a pleasing
thought. To Sumter county goes a vast amount of the
credit for “putting over” the permanent highway move
ment in Georgia. Os course Sumter didn’t start it, but
Sumter was one of the very first counties to grasp the
idea, and the first of the long string of South Georgia
counties to pass a bond issue for a federal aid pro
ject. Sumter was the king-pin. Had Sumter failed there
is reason to believe that every other South Georgia
county would have failed to put the bonds over, and
next, the movement in North and Central Georgia
would have been dead.. And there would have been no
scramble for funds at the statehouse today.
But the scramble is on, for the counties of Georgia
are in earnest about paved rural roads. They are ready
to meet the government funds dollar for dollar. They
are “rearin’ to go.”
It’s a mighty good sign.
FINDING A MARE’S NEST
The Albany Herald expresses the sentiments of the
Times-Recorder accurately and amply on the Shantung
“exposure” which took place this week in the senate,
manipulated by Republican senators.
It is a human weakness to grab a piece of bait, like
a “poor fish,” and run off with it because it pleases
us. It is a human weakness to accept as truths state
ments we hear which we wish were true rather than
which appeal to our reason as likely to be yue. And es
pecially is this the cas» when partisanship is involved,
particularly political.
i The Shantung “exposure” probably hadn’t much
weight after all, but it was intended to have, and there
At ",,
PATIENCE
NO matter what goes wrong, no odds what wires
are crossed, you’d better heave a song, than see
your temper lost. If cussing things would help, I’d
say, “By all means cuss; put up a howl and y--lp,
and raise a beastly fuss.” But this course doesn’t
chas e the shades of gloom away; just wear a cheer
ful face, and things will be O. K. I drove eight hun
dred miles this spring, in my tin car; the rain, in
fifty styles, came down, from clouds ajar. The
roadway was a flood and my old faithful boat just
foundered in the mud, and there gave up its goat.
Time was when I’d have reared and pawed around
and wept, and torn my sorrel beard, while watch
and ward I kept. But years have made me wise; I
know that patience wins; and forty thousand sighs
aren’t worth a brace of grins. And so I waited
there and whistled half a day; then saw a granger
fare with horses down that way. He hauled me
from the mire and only asked a buck and I tuned up
my lyre and blessed my goodly luck. The mudholes
dot life’s way, and there we oft are mired; and
some stand up and bray, and make th e welkin tired;
the wise man sits and hums a tune that should be
canned, until some fellow comes and hauls him to
dry land.
is such a thing: as a succession of such things ultimately
having their effect for evil, which is their design. Those
who are faithful disciples of President Wilson are un
willing to form adverse judgment until hearing the other
side. Those who oppose th e president were pleased with
the “expose.”
As for the Times-Recorder, we believe that the
American delegates reached the best possible bargain
at Versailles, and that if the Shantung section of the
peace treaty is not what, it should be, it is better than
no treaty and no League of Nations; that if they sacri
ficed principle at all it was in the smallest possible de
gree for the greatet possible good, not only to our
country, but to the whole world.
Says the Albany Herald on the subject:
“Opponents of ratification evidently think they
have found a good ‘talking point’ against the treaty of
peace in the so-called Shantung incident, and they are
making liberal use of jt while the making i s good. If
president sees fit to shed more light on the ne.
gotiations at Vey sa Ul§S Whci} the shantung settlement
was made, and to explain more fully the reasons for in
serting the clause in the treaty, the argument may not
then have 00 much weight as it seems to haVd. "
“Senator Lodge no doubt thought he scored heavily
IB the senate when he said the Shantung settlement was
'a price paid’ for Japan’s signature to the League of
Nations covenant with the robbing of China as a con
sideration. Senator Norris’ grandiloquent assertion that
the ratification of the treaty by the United States with
this clause in it would be the ‘blackest page in the na
tion’s history,’ though more than a trifle flighty, was
calculated to make a deep impression on some minds,
and no doubt did so.
“It does not yet appear, though, that the opponents
of the treaty ar e going to be able to attach enough
Weight to this agreement, made between Japan on the
one side, and the governments of France, Great Britain,
Italy and old Russia on the other, to cause the rejection
of the treaty by the United States Senate, or even the
making of a reservation against it. That it will be the
center of a vigorous and vindictive fight before it is
settled in the senate is certain, though, and the whole
world will be anxious watchers of the outcome.
“For, in truth, there is no estimating the possibili
ties should the discussion end in the rejection of the
treaty or a reservation being made against it. The acri
monious discussion will not be calculated to increase the
feeling of friendship that now exists in a greater or
lesser degree between Japan and the United States. It
is not beyond the bounds of possibility that rejection of
the clause would lead to a strained relationship between
this country and Japan, and what such a feeling might
finally lead to, should the League of Nations fail of
being established, can well be imagined. Richmond
Pearson Hobson’s direful predictions of war between
this country and Japan, though somewhat belated of
fulfillment, might finally be realized.
“Really, then—if the opponents of the treaty in
the senate ar e so opposed to interfering in European af
fairs as they profess to be; and if they have only the
best interests of their own country at heart, as they
profess to have; and are not making this fight against
the treaty purely from partisanship reasons, as they
avow they are not—would it not be the part of wis
dom for them to let this agreement among foreign pow
ers alone?” <
■: What Other Editors Say
, CHAINGANG SENTENCES
Some of the sentences pronounced by Judge Eve in
> Superior Court this week are calculated to break up,
s for a time at least, certain violations of the law that
■ were becoming only too common. The culprit, where
i his avocation may be profitable may take the risk of
■ apprehension and fine, but he will hesitate when con
, fronted with the chaingang. The certainty of a chain
gang sentence as a result of conviction will make crime
i decidedly less popular, while it usually makes convic
■ tion more difficult.—Tifton Gazette.
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